What I Saw in a Room of High Achieving Women (And Why Strategy Alone Won't Save You)

About this episode

Lisa Carpenter discusses the challenges faced by high achieving women entrepreneurs and the importance of emotional well-being in business success.

You’re running an impressive business. You’ve got the team, the revenue, the systems, the proof. From the outside, you’ve made it. But somewhere underneath all of it, you’re exhausted, you’re holding everything yourself, and you’re quietly wondering how much longer you can keep this up. In this solo episode, Lisa pulls back the curtain on a recent conference she attended in Burlington with 55 of the most accomplished women entrepreneurs she’s ever shared space with. Six and seven-figure businesses. Sophisticated systems. Real strategy. And underneath all of it, the exact same patterns Lisa works with her clients to dismantle every single day. This is what it actually looks like to do this work in real time, not as a theory, but as a lived practice. Lisa was there for two reasons. First, to sharpen her own CEO skills, because being world-class at your craft and being world-class at running a business are not the same thing. Second, she was on a panel speaking about the cost of not making decisions, specifically the cost of not making decisions about your own physical and emotional well-being, and how that quietly bleeds into your business, your family, and your life. What she…

People in this episode

Host: Lisa Carpenter

Topics covered

• high achieving women
• success paradox
• business strategy
• emotional well-being
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• high achieving women
• success paradox
• business strategy
• emotional well-being
• entrepreneurship
• CEO skills
• decision making

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Burlington

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